News and Perspectives from Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Gateway Generating Station

The chemistry program at two PG&E power plants recently won a best-practices award. The program at the Colusa and Gateway plants helps the plants to run efficiently and more effectively integrate renewables into the grid.

PG&E not only delivers energy used by millions of Californians but also supplies much of that power. Here is a compilation of some of the highlights from 2012 of the utility’s Energy Supply organization, which generates and procures for customers some of the cleanest electricity in the nation.

By 2020, PG&E and other electric utilities must get a third of their electricity from eligible renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, or small hydro. That’s the toughest such mandate in the nation. So why support any more natural gas generation?

The 600-megawatt Gateway Generating Station in Antioch has exceeded more than 1,000 days without a recordable injury or motor vehicle accident. Two other PG&E power plants have also achieved significant safety milestones.